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7/08/2013

Daniel Cockburn at SAW Video July 19-20

Daniel Cockburn's You Are Here has its Ottawa premiere at SAW July 19.

Ottawa cinephiles will want to head over to SAW Video later
this month for a special presentation of the unique work of Toronto-based video
artist Daniel Cockburn. Cockburn will be at SAW July 19-20 to present the
Ottawa premiere of his first feature film You
Are Here, a strange, thought-provoking, and boundary-pushing puzzler that Variety called “a charming, Charlie Kaufman-like
metafictional puzzler.” You Are Here
is also the last film to be released starring the late Canadian actress Tracy
Wright, whose final performance in Bruce McDonald’s Triggermade my list of the ten best in 2010. You Are Here thus presents Canadian film fans in the Capital a
chance to bid adieu to one talent as
they discover another.

Cockburn performs All the Mistakes I've Made

The free outdoor
screening of You Are Here will be
preceded by a live audio-visual performance of Cockburn’s audio-visual
presentation, All the Mistakes I’ve Made.
“Every film I’ve ever made seemed like a good idea at the time,” Cockburn noted
as he presented Mistakes during an
earlier performance in Berlin. Mistakes
is a funny, quirky, and insightfully self-deprecating lecture/performance piece
hybrid in which Cockburn revisits some of his earlier works and walks the
audience through the pros and cons of being a visual artist. A return to a
karaoke-style revamp of “Rocketman”, for example, demonstrates an early illustration
of Cockburn’s meta-philosophical sampling of pop culture, while another excerpt
reveals to the audience the perils of shooting in one’s own bedroom, especially
if the performance space is marked by blotchy candle wax. All the Mistakes I’ve Made provides a perceptive and candid
opportunity for SAW-goers to learn the importance of creating unique and
innovative video art in an age where such work is readily available on forums
such as YouTube and Vimeo.

Cockburn will also
lead a Master Class on July 20th, which can give aspiring artists
in-depth insight into how they can take their work from amateur online media to
professional galleries. In addition to the two-day anti-artist talk, the event
will enjoy the launch of a publication on the work of Daniel Cockburn from the
Canadian Film Institute, which co-presents the event with SAW. The event should
be a fine opportunity to learn from a Canadian artist who is pushing the
boundaries of the ever-shifting form of video art.

SAW and The Canadian
Film Institute present:

-Friday, July 19th:

You Are Here

preceded by All the Mistakes I’ve Made

-Doors open at 7:30 pm. Performance begins at 8:00pm, film
at 9:00 pm.